Susan, I think you're right, this kind of logical diagram would help people get a better feel for how the uPortal pieces fit together - thanks for kicking off this kind of documentation development.
Some (quick) thoughts: * Layout Manager seems like something that belong in Presentation Tier, relying on core "Portal Core" or maybe "Portal Services" * Data tier might be more clear if it were unified into one section, but the data items were split into containers: PortalDB, XML/Files, LDAP, External perhaps? * "Portlet MVC" as the label for items including iChannel seems confusing. * Portlet Preferences seems like it should be a "Business Tier" level service that portlet depend on * The boundaries between Channel Manager and Portlet/iChannels seem like there should be a structure that notes those sub-systems interface through either iChannel or JSR-1 68 interfaces * Perhaps multiple example portlets demonstrating portlet local, external service, and pass-through type scenarios would make the Portlet side more clear * Mobile device isn't connected with a line to PSM - do you want to add an explicit reference to the profile infrastructure to address the ability to send different content to different devices? * Not sure if Yale uses Skins, but also, a mention of user-switchable themes seems like it would be on this diagram Jason -- Jason Shao Director of Open Source Solutions CampusEAI Consortium 1940 East 6th Street, 11th Floor Cleveland, OH 44114 Tel: 216.589.9626x249 Fax: 216.589.9639 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Bramhall Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [uportal-dev] reference architecture - logical view - request for comments There is a new image at http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/download/attachments/5015925/Yale+uPortal+Process+Flow.png. The link to the pdf is: http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/download/attachments/5015925/Portal+Logical+Diagram.pdf. Sorry for the conclusion. Susan Jonathan Markow wrote: Susan- The correct link seems to be the second one you list here, not the "corrected" one you sent out afterwards. Please confirm... -JJM On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Susan Bramhall <[email protected]> wrote: Hi developers. A few weeks ago I asked on the user list if anyone had diagrams of uPortal from architectural perspective. Yale business transformation program is requesting these. I have drawn up a version representing a logical view of uPortal. I would love to have a few uP developers take a look and give me feedback. It is at http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/download/attachments/46/Portal+Logical+Diagram.pdf. We have found that most vendors do have documents like this - especially, for example, Oracle. It would be great if uPortal had similar for the sake of marketing. So please have a look at http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/download/attachments/5015925/Portal+Logical+Diagram.pdf. If feedback on this are too off topic for this list I apologize for the noise. 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